Digital route forward

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Feb 9 2012)

...ly one of the most vibrant digital clusters in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses ......In terms of power infrastructure to support major data centres and manufacturing operations such as Intel or EMC, Mortell says Ireland is just about competitive at the moment. "Paris is using nuclear energ... (Read Full Article)

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Don’t call it a wimpy node: SeaMicro rethinks the server for webscale

Explore GigaOM (Jan 31 2012) Servers

...ion at their pace. But now the density, power and performance demands of companies like Facebook, Google and others are driving vendors in the chip and server industry to react. And so far, SeaMicro has r......ors — delivering four different iterations of its server in response to market demand in 18 months. Intel’s willingness to listen to and learn from SeaMicro, and its gradual realization that the microserve... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 28 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

...infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recording capital expenditures (CapEx) of $951 million. Google’s CapEx spending was about $271 million more than in the third quarter of 2011, when it invested $6......ill acquire a controlling stake in Netmagic Solutions, a leading managed hosting provider in India. Intel: Emerging Player in DCIM Ecosystem – While known primarily for processors, Intel’s innovation extends to middleware like Data Center Manager ... (Read Full Article)

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Smart lights, bright data center

Explore ITworld (Jan 25 2012) Construction

...floppy disks jimlynch answers Running Windows programmes on i mac USASunrise_tw126796899 shared How Google's privacy policy changes will affect Android on Twitter LuisGonzalez_LinkedjNAW3a has just joined I......ogies on POWER7 processor-based server platforms against VMware vSphere 4.1 update 11 on comparable Intel x86 platforms. In this webcast learn how Oracle's new SPARC T4 servers and SPARC Supercluster deliv... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Dec 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud footprint in Europe. In September, Google revealed it will invest €75m in a new data centre that will generate 30 full-time and 200 construct...... and Ireland has been at the cusp of this revolution ever since Apple came to Cork in the 1980s and Intel began making chips to power the PC revolution in the 1990s. In recent weeks ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Europe   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bouncing data would speed up data center

Explore Technology Review (Dec 20 2011)

Inside the huge data centers operated by Internet companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook, information is processed at blistering speed, but it still has to be moved b......sible in a packed data center. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Intel's labs in Oregon have come up with a clever solution: bouncing wireless signals off the ceiling, wh... (Read Full Article)

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Google begins construction of Hong Kong data center

Explore zdnetasia.com (Dec 8 2011) Power and Cooling

Google has kicked off the construction of its first Asian data center in Hong Kong which is expected be up...... special read. I definitely savored every little bit of it. He... Nick, Nice article. I work inside Intel IT and we have approached our cloud strategy similar to you - what does our business need and ho...... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Nov 23 2011) Servers

...centre in Prineville in Oregon. The project has since enrolled an impressive array of members, from Intel, Asus and Rackspace to Mellanox, Huawei and Red Hat, not to mention a few research and education in......pecifications in April was a significant change for an industry where other businesses, such as Google and Amazon, have closely guarded their data centre specs, using them instead as a competitive advan... (Read Full Article)

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why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

...dly versions of the ARM processor produced by Calxeda, instead of more traditional fare from AMD or Intel. The move towards lower power processors - and lots of them - is interesting. It’s a move we’ve b...... delivering web services, social media and simple content delivery applications”. In other words, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, all the big players where the data center action is. If Moonshot hits i... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Intel

Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 28 2011) Cloud Computing

...te Summit in New York featured appearances from executives for some of the sector’s leading names – Intel, Dell, Amazon, Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center though...... Facebook, Red Hat and Goldman Sachs. The audience was filled with data center thought leaders from Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and many other companies with large data center operations. That turnout is n... (Read Full Article)

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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Oct 27 2011)

...ent. If you're still doubting how real this is, consider the list of companies that have signed on: Intel, ASUS, Dell, Huawei, Rackspace, Netflix, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and a little software vendor by t......o is that the OCP systems only catch on with the "create your own universe" builders like Facebook, Google and Amazon. He says that the truth is "probably in the middle," depending on whether enough ... (Read Full Article)

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Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...months: The conclusion, backed up by six decades of data, mirrors Moore’s law, the observation from Intel founder Gordon Moore that computer processing power doubles about every 18 months. But the power-co......increasingly relying on data centers for many services (Netflix streaming, Apple iCloud, Facebook, Google search, etc.), how important is energy efficiency in a data center, and have there been any major b... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Green Business: Inside Intel With Lorie Wigle

Explore EarthTechling (Sep 30 2011) Wind

...so the President of the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI). CSCI is a joint venture between Intel and Google that brings major tech giants to the table to help make the entire computing environment and data c... (Read Full Article)

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Component-level rightsizing to reduce datacenter power, costs

Explore zdnetasia.com (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google are leading the charge toward more innovative datacenter designs, with a focus on optimizing existi......ss as a Competitive Advantage. I so agree with this article. In fact, in January 2011 at our annual Intel IT Leadership Summit... Definitely mobile social networking is a buzz word in Asia at the moment. B... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Include Software And Networking, Expert Says

Explore Network Computing (Aug 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers

...ficiency and cloud computing held last week near San Francisco. The initiative was co-founded by Intel and Google, and includes tech industry giants such as Microsoft, VMware and Cisco Systems, as well as Dell and... (Read Full Article)

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Shifting to Chiller-Less Data

Explore Scientific Computing (Aug 2 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...abling chiller-less facility designs. New data center construction exemplified by companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo has demonstrated a shift toward fresh air-cooled data centers that do not rely ......n the cost of infrastructure cooling. Dell’s Fresh Air cooling solution combined with servers using Intel Xeon processors running at higher ambient temperatures will provide a breakthrough in efficiency fo... (Read Full Article)

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Is a Sea Change Coming in the Server Market?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...enters driving a “sea change” in server design and processor technology? Or will x86 offerings from Intel and AMD continue to dominate, despite the current excitement about new architectures and custom ser......data centers.” For the largest data center operators, the status quo has not been good enough. Both Google and Facebook are building their own custom servers, working with original design manufacturers (ODM... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Beware: Tilera Unveils Processors to Power Cloud Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Jun 21 2011) Cloud Computing

... today that it says will be ten times better in performance and power comparisons than the standard Intel chips that go into internet-connected data centers. More News From VentureBeat Cloud-Based Deve......servers. That market is growing 20 percent a year. The customers for these kinds of servers include Google, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon. The Tile-Gx 3000 chips, which aren’t arriving in the market until the... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center shortage is not Power, Cooling, or Network, but executives - Apple hires Microsoft's Data Center GM

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 13 2011)

...s are heavily recruited like Facebook recently hired a senior mechanical engineer from Equinix and Google's Daniel Costello who also came from Microsoft. Mike Manos is proud of his renegade action to recr......lo who also came from Microsoft. Mike Manos is proud of his renegade action to recruit Daniel from Intel to Microsoft while he had the job that Kevin Timmons had filled and now departed. I called ... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ing the praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Sun and HP. But nudging the thermostat higher may also allow less time to recover from a cooling f... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers Can be Even Warmer

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2011) Servers

...ing the praises of savings through higher baseline temperature settings in the data center includes Google, Intel, Microsoft and HP. The leading industry group for heating and cooling professionals, ASHRAE (Amer... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Sees Challenges in Tablets And Smartphones

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2011)

...red devices to hit the market this year. Wider Choice Of Operating Systems A key differentiator for Intel over rivals who use ARM or MIPS designs is that Intel’s Atom platform can run Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, Google’s Android and MeeGo, jointly developed by Intel and Nokia. “By designing Atom-based tablets, have the opportunity to run multiple operating syst... (Read Full Article)

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JouleX Updates Software For Emerging ECEM Market

Explore Network Computing (Jan 11 2011) Monitoring , Servers

...EM 2.5 also integrates with leading data center management tools such as Cisco Systems' EnergyWise, Intel's Data Center Manager and VMWare's vCenter. Energy management software maker JouleX on Jan. 10 is i......er-based version that would deliver the application to a smart phone powered by RIM's BlackBerry or Google's Android mobile operating systems (as long as the browsers support the HTML 5 standard for Web ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Is Dead on the Desktop, Says AMD Co-Founder

Explore IDG News Service (Nov 24 2010) Cloud Computing

Intel is doomed, Hermann Hauser has claimed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. If you don't kn......significant ground to ARM chips, and Microsoft faces equally annoying competition from the likes of Google's Android, which is climbing onboard practically every computer that isn't a desktop PC or server. ... (Read Full Article)

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